The new Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 electric SUVs will have enhancements to the excellent Pilot Assist driver assistance system.
that will take over as Volvo's flagship. CES '23 marks the EX90's North American debut, and it did so in the Google booth, as Google integration is one of its key offerings.
Volvo's big reveal, besides the EX90 itself, is that it will be one of the first two vehicles to use Google's HD maps, which provide mapping fidelity down to the lane level. Why should you care? Because it's going to do wonders for Pilot Assist, Volvo's lane-centering system.
The addition of HD maps—and the EX90's giant lidar sensor, which lives above the windshield like the roof sign on a London taxi—indicate Volvo's intention for Pilot Assist to go hands-off, at least part of the time. If the mapping data is good, and given our experience with Google, we think it ought to be, Pilot Assist could once again move to the head of the class.
During the short demo we were given, the system locked up twice, flustering the poor Google rep and amusing us to no end. Granted, this was a prototype, non-finished software, excuse, excuse, explanation, explanation. Given our experience with Volvo's infotainment systems, we were not nearly as surprised as the Google rep.
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